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Alex McFarland here with Dylan Burrows. And folks, I'm so excited, so excited about the voice you're going to hear and the guests you're going to meet today because, you know, we live in a time where there's a great clash of world views. And a big part of what we do in our events, publishing, and broadcasting is try to talk about God and country and the truth of what makes this nation great and the Christian foundations that, frankly, have been eroding for decades.

And the guest that we want to bring to you is somebody that I'm just so profoundly interested in. Stacey Washington is the host of a nationally syndicated show called Stacey on the Right. She has been on Fox News, Fox Business, CNN The Blaze, Huffington Post.

I mean, she is out there. She's a voice for truth in our culture, a very relevant, very much needed voice. And I like on her bio, on her website, it says, Christian wife, mom, army brat, Air Force vet, Emmy nominated TV chick and radio host. And Stacey, tell us a little bit about the show that you do on American Family Radio Daily, the Stacey on the Right show. We talk about politics and culture, but it's Christian radio.

So I have a segment called The Encouragement where we unpack a Bible verse and we talk about how it applies to us today because sometimes I think when what we miss out on with political talk radio is the fact that people are dealing with a lot of issues. And so the reason why huge swaths of Americans don't participate in our political processes is because it sounds like one big bag of problems. And if you have a regular everyday life, you're married with kids or single and working or whatever your situation, you already have your own bag of problems.

You don't need an additional one that's going to be something that you now have to figure out, what do I do? And so we do, the show is very informative. We talk about the issues. We talk about everyday politics. I play audio of both sides of the political spectrum and we talk about what they're talking about because these are things that really do impact us, the taxes, the regulations, the bills and the foreign policy, the domestic policy. These things all impact us on a daily basis.

But we also have encouragement that comes straight from the word of God that applies to. Sometimes it's how do we talk to each other truthfully in love about the fact that one of the things that we as Americans are so good at is, hey Alex, how's it going? I'd love you to come over to my house tonight and listen to this Lululemon legging thing. And you're thinking, what? And so you're like, what you want to say is, well Stacy, I can't because I'm going to be at the library tonight or something like that. When the truth is as Christians, we can say to each other kindly and gently, I'm not interested in Lululemon leggings because I'm a man and so I won't be able to make it tonight, but I hope it goes really well for you.

So it's little comments and stuff like that. And it's also how to pray for our leaders, how to pray for the local situations that we have because the local politics is just as important and how to balance it all and really number our days, our minutes, our hours because the time is short. We cannot get any time back that we've wasted and God really will hold us accountable for what we've done with our time. And so we have to prioritize and put him first, first things first, get things in proper order. And then when we do that, we can find the time to, maybe it's voting or maybe it's going to the website callmycongress.com, typing in your zip code and getting the information for your congresspeople to call them about something like, for instance, the Cadillac tax, which that excise tax of 40%, it's going to be the entire employer-based market will come under this tax in 2020. And that's 175 million Americans who receive their health insurance as a part of their negotiated benefits with their employer. And it's almost every plan. So it's supposed to only impact the rich, but it really impacts many man families like mine and yours.

And so many people that we know almost everywhere we interact with. And so not only is it a misnomer, not only is it a lie and a falsity that it only impacts the rich, but it's something that employers, because they have to plan five years ahead, they're already reducing benefits and increasing costs to accommodate the impending implementation in 2020. And what we're hoping people will do is go to the hill.com, type my name in the search engine, you can read the article that I wrote about, let's scrap the Cadillac tax before Americans start paying in money and lives. And then you can go to callmycongress.com, type in your zip code, call your congressional person. It really does matter if you call, you don't have to convince the person who answers, that person will hear your name, they'll take down your address to make sure you're calling the right senator or the right congressperson, and then they'll log that call.

And they track those on a weekly basis. And so if your congressperson were to get a hundred calls about repealing the Cadillac tax, that would become a priority for them because every call represents so many thousands of constituents, depending on the district size. What hope is there for the repeal of that before it's implemented in 2020?

Actually, I think we have a pretty good chance. And the reason why I'm so encouraged is because the president insisted on after Tom Cotton announced it from, you know, he was talking to, to congressional reporters and he just said, you know, what would be great is if we want to save money, we deal the individual mandate. And the president said, let's put that in the bill. And the Democrats weren't able to, you know, kind of push back on that because they know the individual mandate, while it's a primary funding source for Obamacare, it's also the thing people hate the most. It's the thing that their own constituents hate.

So they were able to get rid of it. The Cadillac tax is like a mini individual mandate only, instead of forcing you to buy something, it says, do you have something good? Let me take that from you. Forty percent, I mean, that's unheard of, even for our high tax federal government, a 40 percent tax on anything means you're basically out to destroy it. So, you know, we can we can get this repealed.

I think we have a really good chance. Sure. How did you come to the political and spiritual positions that you hold today? I mean, you're a black conservative, which is fairly rare. The quick story is I was a stay at home mom for years. We have three children. And when we moved out into the suburbs so that the kids could go to public school, I started volunteering on what was called a diversity committee because I wanted to see exactly what they thought they'd be doing in an elementary school. And we ended up doing some amazing things, math programs. And I did some standardized testing work to close the achievement gap. And through that, I ended up volunteering district-wide on a strategic planning committee where I interacted with board members.

They had a board member leave. I became the replacement for her kind of a fill-in interim appointment. I ran for the seat and lost, and I was devastated because I lost at 450 votes. And a friend asked me to come out and speak at a Tea Party Under the Arch event where Dick Morris and Roy Blunt before he was a senator and a bunch of others, really famous people were there, unlike me. So I went, spoke to 4,500 people about the genocide that is abortion in America today, ended up going into a little bit of a volunteer position at another organization for black conservatives. And through that job, I got onto the radio to talk again about black genocide and abortion of Planned Parenthood.

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Alex McFarland, Dylan Burrows. You know, we're talking with Stacey Washington. And Stacey, I want to throw something out here and I want your response to it. Years ago, as you know, I would speak on university campuses and, you know, things would come up about race or culture or the state of, you know, American politics. I wanted to make sure that I was very familiar with the writings of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. So I read everything I could get my hands on. And I read the 1963 Pulitzer Prize winning work, Why We Can't Wait, which I have fallen in love with that book. But in that book, Dr. King, it was really kind of his manifesto for the civil rights movement, thoroughly Christian book.

Christianity just permeates every page of that work. But Dr. King says, essentially, that moving forward, the African Americans had to take care, as he said, that they did not become beholden to any one political party. He felt like, and he used the word disastrous, it would be disastrous if black Americans became just beholden to one political party. But to a large degree, that's what happened for many years, wasn't it?

Well, sure. I mean, I think we all have a huge responsibility to really familiarize ourselves with what Martin Luther King said, and to understand what he meant when he and to understand it contextually. So we're talking about Martin Luther King being alive in a different era of our history of the history of this nation.

And really, if you look at the the advancements that secular movements that want to change the definition of marriage, the definition of what a man is and what a woman is, the strides that those activist groups have made, it was a different America. So the things that he said, you have to take them in context. And you can't say, well, Martin Luther King would have loved Black Lives Matter. I don't think he would have. You can't say he would have really loved anything other than what he said, which is why it's important that we listen to his speeches, read his written words, and understand what he was doing and why he was doing it, and don't add anything to it.

I also think it's important to consider the fact that he was actually a preacher, not a black liberation theology preacher, not someone who believed in social justice, other than the fact that all Americans should have access to the same services in public, and that we should live in harmony together by choice, not because the government is forcing us to. So I love his story. And I think it's weird because I've been to so many Martin Luther King things. I've read so many things. I've seen so many things.

And of course, growing up, we always had things that we did in school. But this Sunday, our pastor had a montage of just a bunch of different images. And it was voiced over by Martin Luther King.

His words were spoken over the images that we saw on the screens. And it's the first time I've ever been to something where things were shown of Martin Luther King where I felt like tearing up. And I just teared up. The tears just rolled down my face.

I don't know what happened. But in that moment, I guess I'm kind of interior and the inside of me as a black person who I never get up and say, Alex, oh my gosh, it's Tuesday. What am I going to do today because I'm black? I never do that. Who does that? Who wakes up and says, I'm a white person.

What am I doing today for white people? That's not how we live. No one lives that way. But in today's America, I see us so divided. I see people looking at each other with fear or disgust. There's so much separation. I was in the Midwest where people are pretty friendly. It's not like the South, but it's friendly. People don't chat as much in the line at the grocery store anymore.

Just the acknowledgement when you're walking by someone where you just make eye contact and you kind of nod or smile, there's less of that. And I really think that the success of getting us to see each other as just what we see on the outside, it's such a blow to our culture. It's such a blow to who we are as Americans.

And so I wish people would consider themselves instead of saying, Stacy Washington, black American, whatever. Think of us as every one of us is a thread and all of the threads come together to make up the flag, the flag of the United States of America. And I'm not into worshiping our country.

I believe we worship God and God alone. But when you think of it that way, if you just think we're all threads, then think about what happens if I reach out and I say, you're a racist, that's like me taking a little razor blade and cutting your thread. So now we've got a hole there. And think about what happens if every one of us does that.

Yeah, as everything has become hyper politicized, we are a less civil, less, less gregarious, less friendly people, aren't we? Yeah. And that's that doesn't have to be and it can be easily changed. So I don't have a negative view.

Like I'm, I don't feel the sadness because I think it can't be changed. But it feels like we're losing something. And you know, the whole thing about being an American is you can spot an American anywhere. And I don't mean it in a negative sense.

I grew up in Germany. And there's something in the American waters in the American experience. It's in the fact that we have a constitution and we have rights. And we know they're from God that we're inalienable rights, not rights given to us by the government, but rights protected by the government. There's something about us that is so different from Germans, from Saudi Arabia, from the French, from the Brits.

It's amazing. There's a quality about us that's different. And I believe that comes from us being a Christian nation founded on Judeo-Christian principles and that we have a special dispensation, an anointing, a blessing, the hand of God has been so on this nation. And so you know, we need to acknowledge that. We need to return back to our source. It's as if we're trying to function without ever drinking any water. We know where the water is. We can see it.

It's free. We can get a glass of it if we need it, but we're trying to function without it. We need to go back to the source. And for those who aren't Christians, you know, God bless you.

But for those of us who are, we need to plug in as hard as we can and pray as hard as we can for our country right now. Because we can, God never relents in his mercy. He never says, okay, you're just too far gone. He'll allow judgment to come on us. But the moment we say, okay, we repent, we understand, he's right there to forgive us and restore us. So that's all we have to do.

Just, just if you're a Christian, devote yourself to praying for our country and for your community, your family, whatever's on your heart, just devote yourself to seeking the Father about that. Well, I want to say Stacey on the right, and it's spelled just like it sounds, Stacey, S-T-A-C-Y, on the right, the dot com. It's a great blog site, folks. A lot of really good articles there. And thanks for being on TNG Radio, and we look forward to following what you're doing in the days ahead. Thank you so much for having me on today.

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864-977-2008 Welcome back to Truth For New Generation Radio. Shortly after the Constitutional Convention, Benjamin Franklin said that it would be disastrous if we ever moved from a unified republic to quote, dozens of squabbling factions, end of quote. Hi, Alex McFarland here with Dylan Burrows. And you know, Dylan, we are, as the motto says, one nation under God. We are America, but yet politically, socially, oftentimes spiritually, we are many squabbling factions, aren't we sometimes in our country?

Oh, we certainly are. And we look at how that compares with scripture. And that's not how we as believers are intended to be. We're told to let no unwholesome words come out of our mouth. And we think of that verse in the context of our political sphere today and the social media that we communicate. And that doesn't always line up, does it?

So we have some room to improve. But at the same time, we look at examples of how God is working through people like Stacey Washington that we just spoke with. And she has an incredible testimony. She has an incredible perspective of how God's Word applies to today's issues and some great recommendations for what we can do in our own lives. I don't know about you, but I was very encouraged to hear what she has been doing and how that has been blessing those that she communicates with on the radio each day. Exactly.

Dylan Burrows, Alex McFarland here. We've got a thought we want to share. But before we conclude, I do want to remind everybody to pray, promote, plan to attend March 23-24, Truth for a New Generation, Greensboro, North Carolina.

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So you can donate online at truthforanewgeneration.com or alexmcfarland.com. But Dylan, I know we've only got a little bit of time. I'm thinking about a quote. President John F. Kennedy in 1961, January 20, 1961, in his inaugural address, JFK said, quote, the rights of man come not from the generosity of the state, but from the hand of God, end of quote. Harry Truman said the fundamental basis of our nation's laws was given to Moses on the mount.

Listen to this. This is President Harry Truman in February of 1950. He said that if we don't have the proper moral foundation, we will end up with a totalitarian government which does not believe in the rights for anyone except the states. Now he went on and he said the Bill of Rights comes from the teachings of Exodus and St. Matthew, Isaiah and St. Paul.

Now think about it, folks. President Harry Truman said that the Bill of Rights, the Constitution, the Declaration, drawn from Moses on the mount, that's Exodus 20, the Ten Commandments, Matthew, Isaiah and Paul, and he went on and he said if we don't understand this and understand that our rights come from God, ultimately it will be statism, believing that the rights are belonging to the state, not the populace. So Dylan, we're called to preach the gospel, I know, but it's important to understand what a great gift we've been given in having a Christian America where we have religious freedom and the ability, the liberty to spread this gospel, and that's got to be preserved, doesn't it?

Well, certainly. I think people underestimate or under-appreciate the blessings that we have, but I know personally if you go to another country, you very quickly realize what you've taken for granted for so many years. For example, if you were to go to many Western European nations, you would see this privatization of religion where there's a strict separation between your faith and the rest of your life.

People tend to still be religious, but only on a personal level, you're not encouraged to talk about it in public. If you were to go to other countries such as China where there's some persecution against Christians, or to North Korea, which is considered the most persecuted nation against Christians in the world today, you would very quickly greatly appreciate the religious freedom that you have today. So when you look in comparison with the rest of the world, we are blessed beyond comparison in our ability to publicly worship the Lord, to speak freely on the airwaves and on television and on the internet about the things we believe.

And with that blessing comes a responsibility that we are not only given the opportunity to do so, but a responsibility to communicate spiritual truth in the best ways that we can through our lives and through the words that we speak to make a difference in the lives of those around us. You know, in two of the books that God's allowed us to write, one is called Ten Issues That Divide Christians, and the other, Stand Strong for America, we talk about the fact that God and government are intertwined. Thomas Jefferson, 1781, in his notes on the state of Virginia, Jefferson, he's oftentimes kind of the poster child for liberalism, but they've got Jefferson wrong in so many ways. He wrote this question, can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are the gift of God? Dylan, one last quote, I know we're running out of time, but Eisenhower, Dwight Eisenhower, when he was president, said this, quote, the founding fathers had to refer to the Creator in order to make the revolutionary experiment make sense. It was because all men are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights, Eisenhower says, that men could dare to be free. Now listen to this, folks. President Eisenhower said, quote, the founding fathers had to refer to a Creator in order to make their revolutionary experiment make sense.

What does that mean? Without God, you don't have objective moral truth. Without objective moral truth, you can't say that there are inalienable rights that can't be taken away. It's without God, without morality, without truth, without an ethical compass that we look to, it ultimately becomes might makes right, and everybody's future, everybody's freedom is jeopardized. That's why we plead that you, number one, know Christ as your Savior, that number two, embrace your calling for citizenship to be salt and light in the culture, and that maybe for another two centuries, God will allow America to be this beacon of hope, truth, and salvation to people, to our communities, ultimately to the world. Truth for a New Generation, in association with Alex McFarland Evangelistic Ministries, exists to equip Christians with a biblical worldview through conferences and camps. For information about upcoming events, visit truthforanewgeneration.com, or give us a call at 877-YES-GOD-1. That's 877-YES-GOD and the number one. TNG radio is made possible by the friends of Alex McFarland Evangelistic Ministries, P.O. Box 485, Pleasant Garden, North Carolina, 27313. That's P.O. Box 485, Pleasant Garden, North Carolina, 27313. Or give online at alexmcfarland.com or truthforanewgeneration.com. Thanks for listening, and join us again next time as we bring you more truth for a new generation on TNG radio.